Ya, they said they are keeping it. Oracle basically said they were just going to keep everything and spend more money on the products then Sun did. But there will be some cuts to the server line from what I hear (low end stuff mostly).

where do you get that lineage? Data General went to EMC. there are a lot of DG'ers around that would disagree they are dead.maybe the server business is dead, it died long before the acquisition. however, their storage business is still hot.

edit: oh, you meant DG AND CD are BOTH dead. still... DG; not!

but it is true all the unix platform guys are gone, and HP and IBM are the refuge for the surviving members HP-UX and AIX. but it's a small part of their business, to lose it would only cost them customers

now it's commodity components; windows, linux, pc's, open source and cloud-vertising. what used to make computing special is gone from the world, yet still lives on in the hearts of dreamers, and kids too young to realize the hurt of loving an old friend that died of neglect beneath the melee of mediocrity, windows or linux... the past will never rise again. it's all dead now...

where do you get that lineage? Data General went to EMC. there are a lot of DG'ers around that would disagree they are dead.maybe the server business is dead, it died long before the acquisition. however, their storage business is still hot.

edit: oh, you meant DG AND CD are BOTH dead. still... DG; not!

but it is true all the unix platform guys are gone, and HP and IBM are the refuge for the surviving members HP-UX and AIX. but it's a small part of their business, to lose it would only cost them customers

DG makes perepherals, yes, but no longer computers. I guess you could say that CDC is still around as well - split between Seagate and BT, but they really can't be said to make computers either.

But it's not just UNIX platform guys that are dead (we still have SCO after all!) - it's more of a mindset that's dead. The last burst of more unfettered innovation seems to have flickered out in the '90s with Itanium (I wonder if that will be the last new electronic computer architecture designed?) and I suppose Windows NT, Plan 9, or possibly NeXTSTEP in the O/S space.

The '60s and '70s must have been exciting to be in from a computing standpoint, with so many new approaches. Of course keeping in mind the caveat that few could afford to play around on the machines then.

It'll be interesting to see how development goes from here, since ideas used to usually filter down from the high end, and the high end is considerably shrinking.

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

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